Kiss My Knits!

Here we are, bright eyed and bushy tailed. Team Lassiter! We’ve boarded the train and are ready to go! At the very first station, however, we make a misstep. The early stations only have one or two items to get, but we opted to get off and try for them anyway. This was a crucial mistake, points-wise, as it meant we’d be late getting to the meaty stations uptown that had quite a few photos for more points. Eh, whatever, we were there to have fun.

The other thing that got us, points-wise, was that we went out of our way to take creative but more time-consuming pictures. Apparently some of the other teams took pictures without ever getting off the train which honestly never occurred to us. It kind of felt like if we were going to be taking the picture, we should get up and go take the picture. That’s not to disparage the other teams, understand, but this was our particular mindset. As a result, we lost time by doing things like the picture to the right. If you’re going to take a picture of an upside down Italian, then clearly you need an upside down team member.



However, I do not consider this to be a bad thing. We had a fantastic team, and we had a fantastic time. I’m pleased with our “quality over quantity” approach to the photos.

So how’d we do? Team Lassiter took third place out of three teams competing. Here’s our prize: The Thoroughbred of Sin. It was hard to eat with that horrible death whinny.

This was a blast. I would absolutely do this again.

I’m very excited to be going out with the Charlotte Browncoat community this afternoon. One of our members, Tanya, is twenty kinds of clever and put together an event for us.

It’s called The Train Job. It’s a photo scavenger hunt centered around Charlotte’s new LYNX light rail system. We’ve all been assigned to teams, and we’re going to meet at 1pm at the furthest Lynx station, out on I-485, and buy round trip tickets. We’ll be given assignments of things along the line that we have to try to photograph. Then we’ll all meet uptown and compare what we’ve got to declare a winner. Maximum predicted running time: three hours.

I’m on Team Lassiter. Tanya has assigned us so that all teams have at least one person with a digital camera and one person who knows the South Boulevard corridor. I think we’ve got two people who know the area. I’m one of them. We’re all supposed to have cell phones, but mine’s on the fritz, so hopefully I won’t get separated from the group. If I do, well, it’s not like I’ll be stranded. I’ll be right next to a train.

If you’re a local Browncoat who wants to participate, y’all come. I’m sure we could squeeze some more people onto the teams. It’s only supposed to get up to 47 degrees today, so I’ll be bundled within an inch of my life, but it’s never too cold for thrilling heroics! Plus I’ll be knitting Jayne hats on the train between stops to maximize productivity and Browncoat spirit. I think this’ll be fun!